I was kinda surprised (and more than a little suspicious) that I couldn't find an existing topic on this, but I did use the search bar. But I wanted to see what people though of so called "Positive Discrimination", the practise of forcing buisnesses to not be racist, sexist, ageist.. whatever.
For anyone who doesn't know, this is an example of positive discrimination: companies have to maintain a certain ratio of white and black workers. So say two people applied for a job, one white and one black. Now for the sake of argument, lets say the white person was better qualified, however the buisness didn't have enough black workers so the black person gets the job. The same thing could happen between a man and a woman, a teenager and an adult, a Christian and a Muslim, any two people.
Obviously this is wrong, however do you think it's a worthy trade to ensure that genuinly racist companies are legally obliged to not be?
Oh and it would be interesting for anybody who responds to say their gender, race, religion.. stuff like that. If you want to. Myself, I'm a white teenage male.
